RFE: askfedora pop up on clicking "ask a question"

[Ankur Sinha]

Hi folks,

I was wondering if it's possible to pop-up a tiny message displaying
information on "How to ask a question" that users can then choose to
"not show next time"?

It's been quite a while since askfedora was set up, and I still see most
posts on as disorganized, without information, without formatting, and
well, mostly not even in question form. I know the idea is that people
will learn as the forum gets utilized more, but I think we should try to
speed up this learning process?

Another idea worth implementing is that users with points below a
threshold should not be able to create new tags and must use
pre-existing tags instead. (Stackexchange has this iirc)

What do you think? I'll file bugs with upstream if the ideas seem sane.
Folks with django knowledge are welcome to work on these tiny ideas and
submit patches to upstream too!

[Akshay Vyas]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Ankur Sinha  wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I was wondering if it's possible to pop-up a tiny message displaying
> information on "How to ask a question" that users can then choose to
> "not show next time"?

i Think this is good for those who are new users but old users might complain
about the pop up.
> It's been quite a while since askfedora was set up, and I still see most
> posts on as disorganized, without information, without formatting, and
> well, mostly not even in question form. I know the idea is that people
> will learn as the forum gets utilized more, but I think we should try to
> speed up this learning process?
>
> Another idea worth implementing is that users with points below a
> threshold should not be able to create new tags and must use
> pre-existing tags instead. (Stackexchange has this iirc)

yeah that's nice idea,ACK from my side
> What do you think? I'll file bugs with upstream if the ideas seem sane.
> Folks with django knowledge are welcome to work on these tiny ideas and
> submit patches to upstream too!
> --

can we do one more "Removing the duplicates" ??
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[Ankur Sinha]

On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 17:29 +0530, Akshay Vyas wrote:
> can we do one more "Removing the duplicates" ??

I don't know if it's possible to do this automagically. We can do a
manual sprint if anyone's interested.

I found an RFE for karma requirement to create tags already filed:
http://askbot.org/en/question/8390/require-karma-threshold-to-create-new-tag...

Again, any django folks interested in providing upstream with
patches? :)

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 07/31/2012 04:06 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I was wondering if it's possible to pop-up a tiny message displaying
> information on "How to ask a question" that users can then choose to
> "not show next time"?

I don't think it should be a pop up.  When you click on the question
field, the appropriate guidelines can be displayed on the side pane and
when you click on the body, similarly.  It should be a unobstrusive way
and then you don't need a method to say, don't show next time

Rahul

[Ankur Sinha]

On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 09:15 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> I don't think it should be a pop up.  When you click on the question
> field, the appropriate guidelines can be displayed on the side pane
> and
> when you click on the body, similarly.  It should be a unobstrusive
> way
> and then you don't need a method to say, don't show next time

Aye. Sounds good. Any django developers as takers for this? :)